Yesterday, I reached out to the journalist Anand Giridharadas because he wrote a superb guest essay in the New York Times about what the latest batch of Epstein emails tells us about the true nature of the elites who comprise “The Epstein Class”. I recommend everyone read it. (It’s so good, I’ve read it multiple times).
In it, he lays out vividly how Jeffrey Epstein was able to conduct a global orchestra of plutocrats, who cared not a jot that the man who was summoning them to dinner, or to lunch, or to the Middle East, was a convicted sex offender. He shows how these guys (and they were mostly guys) sought Epstein out for contacts, for insider information of any sort, for, in a word, “edge’. And that the person with the greatest “edge” of all was Epstein, the man-in-the-middle, whose poor spelling and grammar, was probably a deliberately manipulative mind-fuck, designed to keep them all beneath him in the shallow hierarchy on this lofty plane.
You can watch our conversation above. And, yes, I’ll take Anand’s compliment: “You’re one of the only people whose name turns up in the Epstein emails in a way that makes you look better rather than worse because they’re worried about you.”
“They’re worried about you….” That’s a phrase I think all investigative journalists want to hear regarding people in power who are hiding nefarious things.
It’s cold comfort, given the hideousness of the crimes Epstein committed over so many years, but if, as it appears, I caused him even a few seconds of angst, then…good.
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